Today, I’m going to discuss a letter I received.I’ll read it to you.
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“I’m afraid my child is ODD. What should I do? For the past two years, when I talk to the doctors about it, I’m told that he’s going to grow out of it; buy levitra. He’s a boy. He’ll just grow out of it; buy levitra. My husband’s also in denial that anything is wrong – buy levitra. He just started Pre-K this year and the teachers are having a very, very hard time with him; buy levitra. We’ve tried spanking buy levitra, time outs and taking things away, and nothing seems to be helping. I love him but I don’t know what to do.”
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First of all, will the child grow out of it?
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The second issue is what to do about it.
Now, “the spankings, the punishments, they’re not working.”
That’s not a surprise to me because these children function in a different way. What you have to work on in a younger child and really, all children are the same way, but in a younger child especially, you must focus on the developing a good strong loving relationship.
You cannot make your ODD child do anything he does not want to do. Buy levitra: the way you control and direct a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder is to make it so that he really wants to behave. You do that through the strength of your relationship.
We at Complete Connection Parenting have done research in four continents with both our child behavior program and our Teen Program and we have found is that it’s the relationship that makes all the difference for ODD children and teenagers. It is through your relationship that you will be able to correct your child’s behavior and restore peace to your home.
To do this you need to find a good strong parenting program. This program must focus on ODD children. many programs say they help with ODD children and teenagers, but they really lack the understanding of this condition – buy levitra.
Secondly, the program must focus on building your relationship; not on punishments, not on techniques, but on building the relationship. ( Buy levitra: note: giving effective consequences is not the same as giving punishments.Effective consequences build your relationship with your child. If you have listened to the free CD on consequences, you know this already.)
When you focus on your relationship, our research has shown in most cases the need for punishment goes away completely.
The third issue in this letter, which is a harder issue to address, is her husbands denial; buy levitra.
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Can you do anything about it if your partner is in denial? Hard to say. One thing you can do is when you start raising a child properly buy levitra, you show you yourself have a direction. Your husband may come around and back up and see the problem, see the solution, and not be in denial anymore.
The other thing to understand is this; really, it’s best to have both parents involved and working together, but the child can improve if only one of his parents uses effective parenting techniques.
The main thing for you to do is to find a good parenting program that focuses on building relationships and is designed for Oppositional Defiant Disorder children, and enroll in that program; buy levitra. You do not need to do this in person. Studies show that a home study program is just as effective as working with a therapist – buy levitra. Such a program also has the advantage that it is much more affordable and is available everywhere; buy levitra. It is still hard to find a qualified therapist who is also good.
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What you said about “strength of relationship” helping to overcome ODD behaviors… but WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A CHILD WHO IS ALSO ATTACHMENT DISORDERED and therefore has a very difficult time forming relationships with anyone especially his parents??? This sort of complicates the “strength of relationship” approach with children with ODD… we have not just one but TWO of them, adopted as older kids 6-1/2 years ago and presently 17 and 15-1/2 years old chronologically but emotionally and behaviorally much younger. They also suffer from FASD issues.
Any recommendations and suggestions for these further complicated sets of issues that we face daily, would be appreciated.
I have had/still have the same problem with foster and adopted children. I think they fall into a category of their own. They require ongoing reinforcement that they are loved where they are at now. . . this is very hard for them to accept. It is even harder to unlearn all those terrible behaviors they have learned from getting by in their past homes. Add to that RAD and FASD and its a long battle. This is not to say there is no hope, it will just take longer. I have not enrolled in eithier of A. Kane’s programs but do believe that building a strong and loving relationship is the key.
I would love to hear from some parents who have gone through Kane’s programs to hear their responses to how their kids responded, how difficult it was to change the parent’s behaviors, etc.